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When teams avoid conflict so successfully they can't make hard decisions

My work team says we collaborate well but really we've just learned to avoid conflict so skillfully that we never actually work through disagreements anymore. Now we have a big project where we genuinely disagree about direction and nobody knows how to have that conversation.

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A group's conflict avoidance has become so sophisticated that they've lost access to productive disagreement when they need it most.

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